[Talk-GB] Town v City

[Colin Smale]

Formal UK City status may be held by a council (can be
borough/district/unitary/parish) or by Charter Trustees. I am working on
some kind of normalisation in the tagging for administrative areas and I
am proposing to reflect the formal city/town status in the
council_style=* tag, to show what the council is entitled to call
itself. This gives a way to tag the formal status orthogonally to the
perceived importance (based on population or whatever) of the "place",
except where the city status is held by Charter Trustees.
Work-in-progress (comments welcome) on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Csmale/ukboundaries 

Colin 

On 2014-02-25 14:46, David Earl wrote: 

> On 25 February 2014 13:39:50 GMT, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote: 
> 
>> The question that needs to be answered is what "fact" does place=city 
>> represent in UK mapping.
>> 
>> Your assertion is that it should be those places granted city status by 
>> the government.
> No, it's never been that. I was saying it was unfortunate that it was done the way it was, but cest la vie. But once upon a time the definition was much more precise (but often ignored, indeed I did it myself with Ely), and is now a rather wooly subjective definition. 
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